Thomas Jefferson Christianity Quotes

#1. Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

Lights

#3. If you want something then you lose everything. If you don't want anything then you already have everything.

Seungsahn

#4. Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

Emile Zola

#5. All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse's religion - whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#6. Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Marc Ribot

#7. The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Truth can stand by itself ... If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Thomas Jefferson

#11. The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Lao-Tzu

#12. [Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Thomas Jefferson